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In a fiery appearance on OutFront, former CNN host Don Lemon lashed out at Donald Trump, accusing the former president of inciting violence and threatening democracy. Lemon suggested Trump should stop trying to overturn elections and inciting insurrections if he wanted Democrats to stop calling him a threat to democracy. This comes after a second assassination attempt on Trump, which Lemon linked to Trump's divisive rhetoric. He also condemned Trump’s frequent insults towards political opponents, which he said contribute to political violence. Lemon didn’t hold back, referencing Trump’s derogatory nicknames for Democrats, such as "Crooked Joe" for President Biden and...

Scientists finally re-analyzed the study and found that it was riddled with errors—but that didn’t matter then because it furthered the narrative. In America, an inordinate number of so-called “scientific” studies are subject to what’s called the “replication (or reproducibility) crisis.” If someone publishes a study that feeds into leftist shibboleths, no matter how poorly done the study is (small sampling, foolish assumptions, bad math, etc.), the results are widely trumpeted and become embedded in the popular consciousness. That the study cannot be replicated (run again from scratch) or reproduced (subject to a new analysis of the study’s data)—and often...

Republican Senator Tom Cotton clashed with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins live on air after GOP senators on Tuesday tanked a bill protecting access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments for a second time this year. The interview started off hostile with Collins asking the Arkansas lawmaker if he would have voted for a similar bill if Donald Trump were in office. The ex-president on the campaign trail has called for the government paying for or ensuring insurance pays all costs for fertility treatment.

CNN pundit Scott Jennings accused the network of allowing comments by Donald Trump to repeatedly be taken out of context to stoke fear and anger. The senior political commentator argued CNN has let the Kamala Harris mischaracterize comments by Trump in a way that is 'designed to radicalize' his critics. Jennings, a Republican, made the comments during a panel the day after an apparent second assassination on the former Republican president, who has claimed rhetoric by Democrats is putting him in danger.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten is ringing an alarm bell for Kamala Harris, suggesting that even though she is leading by a point or two in some national polls, she is in the ‘danger zone’ in the swing states where it matters most. Her numbers may not be enough to get her across the finish line because of our Electoral College system. If Harris somehow pulls out the popular vote in November but loses the election, we will once again be subjected to the left’s white-hot rage against the Electoral College, just like in 2016. FOX News reports: Kamala Harris...

CNN‘s Juliette Kayyem voiced concerns that the multiple attempts on former president Donald Trump‘s life could help him politically and propel him to the White House. Kayyem had a strange choice of words to describe the assassination attempt against the former president, calling the situation a “problem” and “unfortunate” – that is to say, a problem for the media and Democrats. Authorities arrested 58-year-old Ryan Routh after the Secret Service noticed his AK-47-style rifle as he hid in the shrubbery only a few hundred yards away from the former president at the Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach, Florida....

U.S. — In the wake of yet another assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the media sought to assure Americans that the real threat isn't the side doing the shooting. "The people getting shot at and murdered, they are the real threats," explained CNN correspondent Dana Bash. "Every time you see another attempt to kill a Republican, remember that Democrats are the party of peace and tolerance." The media also condemned Republicans for using such harsh rhetoric and causing people to try to murder them. "We hereby call on the people getting shot at to stop being mean," Bash...

A social media account run by Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has been repeatedly deceptive. The @KamalaHQ account, which has more than 1.3 million followers on the X social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Donald Trump. The Harris campaign deploys @KamalaHQ as a kind of irreverent attack dog, using jocular posts to draw attention to controversial, incorrect, or dubious comments by Trump and his allies. But the account, which the Harris campaign calls its “official rapid response page,” has itself made inaccurate comments...

The latest national New York Times/Siena College poll revealed that whereas likely voters feel confident they know who President Donald Trump is, they are still largely unsure about Kamala Harris, her policies, and her plans. KFile, an investigative outfit at CNN, unearthed a document this week that provides several alarming insights into what the Democratic candidate might actually believe in, including taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal aliens and federal prisoners, eliminating the Hyde Amendment, statehood for Washington, D.C., decriminalizing crack cocaine for personal use, and cutting Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding. These revelations, contained within an American Civil Liberties Union...

Russia has been thwarting US-made mobile rocket systems in Ukraine more frequently in recent months, using electronic jammers to throw off its GPS guided targeting system to cause rockets to miss their targets, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.Ukrainian military officials, with the US’ help, have had to come up with a variety of different workarounds as it continues to use the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) which has been perhaps the most revered and feared piece of weaponry in Ukraine’s fight.The medium-range rocket systems were hailed as a game changer in the conflict and have played...

CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem, a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, was among the droves of liberals who rushed to social media this week to ridicule former President Donald Trump over factual claims he made in Tuesday's debate. Kayyem's experience working in the Obama administration and serving as a member of the National Commission on Terrorism failed to prepare her for the task of dunking on Trump. She suggested that Trump's accurate identification of a founding member of the Taliban present for the U.S.-Taliban peace talks in Doha was a clear indication of his "racism and senility." Having...

David Frum did stop short of banging his fists or stamping his feet. But on today's CNN This Morning, the Trump-detesting Canadian could not contain his frustration at the prospect that, thanks to the "probably stupid" rules of the Constitution, Trump could win the election with an Electoral College majority despite losing the popular vote count. Frum was responding to a statement by Edward-Isaac Dovere that some in the Kamala camp believe that if the election were held today, she would lose. Frum began by claiming: "We need to be more specific about what we mean by 'lose." Depends on...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” host Wolf Blitzer claimed it was “outlandish” for 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump to claim 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris supports taxpayer funding for gender transition surgeries for illegal immigrants and those in prison, a stance that CNN itself reported that Harris took when she was running for president the last time and that her campaign refused to tell CNN if she still supports. While speaking to Harris-Walz Co-Chair Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA), Blitzer said, “I want to play for you, Sen., some of Trump’s more outlandish...

CNN anchor Abby D. Phillip on Wednesday sought to justify the presidential debate moderators’ uneven fact-checking of former President Donald Trump and not Vice President Kamala Harris, despite her numerous lies. “Just fyi: when there is asymmetrical lying, there will be asymmetrical fact checking,” Abby D. Phillip posted on X. Her post came in response to criticism from the right over ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis’s constantly fact-checking Trump and letting Harris skirt by with falsehoods.

If it had been up to Kasie Hunt, host of CNN This Morning, the rest of today's show could have been ditched, replaced by a non-stop loop of Trump making his claim, during last night's debate, that migrants are eating the pets of residents of Springfield, Ohio. She cited leftist late-night jester Stephen Colbert, and smirked at Trump "spouting baseless allegations about migrants eating pets." After playing it once, Hunt begged a show director: "Can we, can we just, Jimmy in the control room, can we play the pets bite one more time? Can we just watch that one more...

(CNN) - Alleged Israeli airstrikes in central Syria on Sunday night struck a facility claimed by the West to have produced chemical weapons, according to a local resident. The strikes killed at least 18 people and injured 37 others, state-run Syrian news agency SANA said Monday, citing the director of Masyaf National Hospital. SANA reported that there had been several explosions in the central Tartous and Hama governorates, including in the Masyaf countryside. A Masyaf resident, who requested anonymity for security reasons, described to CNN hearing several explosions late Sunday night. “About half an hour before midnight, multiple airstrikes targeted...

CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings fired back at commentator Maria Cardona on Monday after she claimed voters view Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as an “extremist.”Cardona said on CNN News Central that voters believe they “deserve better” than Trump as they detest his alleged lying and how supposedly misaligned his policies are with the American people. Jennings suggested that the former president would win the electoral college since the candidates were tied nationally in the polls. (snip) “What I’m saying is that women can go into a polling booth, with more than one thought in their head, Scott,” Cardona...

As Kamala Harris pivots to the political center in her campaign for president, a 2019 questionnaire from a leading civil rights organization spotlights her past support for left-wing causes such as taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners. In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen. Harris filled out as a candidate for president in 2020, she also expressed support for decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use, and for sweeping reductions to Immigration and Custom Enforcement operations, including drastic cuts in ICE funding and an open-ended pledge to “end” immigration detention. The Harris campaign did not...

Dana Bash was none too impressed after she interviewed Kamala Harris and her Emotional Support Governor, Tim Walz. We suppose even she couldn't argue with the fact that out of 41 minutes all they could use was a whopping 18 minutes. Hard to claim the interview went well when Americans saw it and could tell differently. But still, this is surprisingly honest from Bash, watch: The post continues: 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me' should be the approach of the American people towards the Biden-Harris administration. Wow. Sounds like Dana is more than willing...

VIDEOYeah, Donald Trump is really worried about the supposedly fantastic good looks of Kamala Harris which could help her in winning the September 10 debate between them according to an "Inside Politics" panelist at CNN. Right now Kamala has at least two people helping her: Mr. Jack Daniels and Mr. Jim Beam. The only question is how much help Kamala is now taking from these two aides. Don't worry, Kamala. According to the CNN panelist it doesn't really matter what you say no matter how incoherent it may be. What really counts is your looks which will overwhelm everything else.